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Ergo nihil
potest ad malos pervenire, quod prosit, immo nihil,
quod non noceat. Quaecumque enim illis con-
[p. 326]
tigerunt, in naturam suam vertunt et extra speciosa
profuturaque, si meliori darentur, illis pestifera sunt.
Ideo nec beneficium dare possunt, quoniam nemo
potest, quod non habet, dare ; hic bene faciendi
voluntate caret.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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